Scott Wattles and The Blue Suede Crew still rocking the stage (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)

For the past four years, Scott Wattles and The Blue Suede Crew have enthralled crowds with their Memphis-based sound of years gone by.

Blues music performance at Dvorak Hall was awesome (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)

Monday evening blues fans gathered in acoustically perfect Dvorak Hall at Eastern Illinois University’s Doudna Fine Arts Center to enjoy the music of Eric Bibb — an unusually unique blues artist, who was accompanied by Grant Dermody — an unusually unique harmonic player. Totally awesome.

Back Stage (Mmegi)

The nine lives of Bob Dylan

Live Review: Muse in T.O. (Jam! Showbiz)

TORONTO - It was an intriguing-looking sight as theatrically-bent British power-prog-rock trio Muse brought their biggest production to date to North America.

Tyler Grady hasn't been idle since ''Idol.'' (The Morning Call)

Since being voted off ''American Idol'' two weeks ago, not only has Nazareth resident Grady given a whirl of radio and TV interviews, but he and his Lehigh Valley-based band, Wailing Waters, are getting back on the road.

Fred Wedlock obituary (Guardian Unlimited)

Bristolian folk singer, actor and TV presenter known for his hit The Oldest Swinger in Town British folk clubs during the 1960s and 70s played host to the "folk comedians", who combined a love of folk music with a natural ability to make an audience laugh. Jasper Carrott, Mike Harding and Billy Connolly all started off in folk clubs. Fred Wedlock, who has died of a heart attack aged 67, was ...

LISTEN: Hot Brit Crooner Findlay Brown (Spin)

With an ear to retro soul, Amy Winehouse transformed herself into a chart-topping, Grammy-winning diva. Now another Brit, Yorkshire-born Findlay Brown, is pushing old sounds into new territory with his unique twist on early-1960s Brill Building pop. A former bare-knuckle boxer, Brown -- featured in SPIN's March issue -- just released his second album, the Bernard Butler-produced Love Will Find ...

Musician Peter Gabriel has it covered on 'Scratch' (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

NEW YORK - Peter Gabriel has always been an experimental artist. He pioneered the progressive rock movement in the 1960s with his band Genesis, explored African rhythms with his solo work, and branched into world music later in his career.

Guitar legend-inventor Les Paul dies at age 94 (Greenwich Citizen)

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Les Paul , who invented the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock 'n' roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 94.

James Gurley: Guitarist foil to Janis Joplin in Big Brother and the Holding Company (Independent)

Best remembered for the two albums they made featuring Janis Joplin in the late 1960s, Big Brother & the Holding Company were one of the great psychedelic groups from San Francisco, alongside the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Their lead guitarist, James Gurley, was Joplin's foil, his wild playing an ideal if shortlived match for her bluesy ...